Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 61 64
Rank change year-on-year -61 +3 -16
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,437 1,847 3,652
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.57% 4.25% 3.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% 4.57% 4.45%
Number of salaries quoted 991 1,061 2,751
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,688 £43,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +15.38% -16.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £103,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% -7.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 68,019 40,426 81,982
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 74.51% 93.00% 85.53%
Number of salaries quoted 42,516 22,659 59,588
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,580 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.83% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.90% +5.00% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 6 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 6 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -55 1,306 £76,000 +1.33% 641
London +4 695 £87,500 +2.94% 263
Work from Home -34 619 £70,000 -2.77% 322
UK excluding London -124 618 £67,500 -3.57% 438
North of England -55 290 £69,310 -3.74% 131
North West -62 143 £70,000 -3.45% 71
South East -103 133 £72,500 +7.41% 131
Yorkshire -43 96 £69,310 -4.40% 29
South West -86 60 £57,500 -16.09% 56
Midlands -110 54 £67,500 +5.88% 60
North East +6 51 £65,000 +30.00% 31
East of England -24 40 £60,100 +4.52% 34
West Midlands -64 33 £73,750 +5.36% 28
Scotland -94 32 £62,500 -17.52% 17
East Midlands -87 20 £67,250 +7.60% 32
Wales -32 10 £53,171 +2.25% 7
Northern Ireland -32 7 £62,500 +13.64% 6
Isle of Man - 1 £35,000 - 1
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 29 (2.02%) Apache Spark
2 17 (1.18%) Confluence
3 16 (1.11%) Apache
4 15 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
4 15 (1.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 14 (0.97%) IIS
6 13 (0.90%) OpenStack
7 12 (0.84%) JBoss
8 9 (0.63%) CMS
9 7 (0.49%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.28%) Apache Pulsar
10 4 (0.28%) Appian
10 4 (0.28%) Camunda
10 4 (0.28%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 3 (0.21%) Liferay
11 3 (0.21%) nginx
11 3 (0.21%) NServiceBus
11 3 (0.21%) WordPress
12 2 (0.14%) Drupal
Applications
1 12 (0.84%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (0.49%) Maya
4 6 (0.42%) PlantUML
5 4 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
6 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.14%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
3 5 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.28%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.14%) Endur
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.14%) Shopify
6 1 (0.070%) Actimize
6 1 (0.070%) Bloomberg AIM
6 1 (0.070%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.070%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.070%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.070%) Quorum
6 1 (0.070%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.070%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.070%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.070%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 779 (54.21%) AWS
2 590 (41.06%) Azure
3 305 (21.22%) GCP
4 244 (16.98%) Serverless
5 152 (10.58%) SaaS
6 122 (8.49%) Azure DevOps
7 119 (8.28%) AWS Lambda
7 119 (8.28%) GitHub
8 107 (7.45%) Amazon S3
9 85 (5.92%) Amazon EKS
10 83 (5.78%) AWS CloudFormation
11 73 (5.08%) Amazon SQS
12 70 (4.87%) Amazon ECS
13 60 (4.18%) Amazon EC2
14 56 (3.90%) Azure Service Bus
15 55 (3.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 49 (3.41%) OpenShift
17 45 (3.13%) Datadog
18 44 (3.06%) Azure AKS
19 42 (2.92%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 58 (4.04%) Broadband
2 15 (1.04%) Network Security
3 13 (0.90%) HTTP
4 9 (0.63%) DNS
5 7 (0.49%) AMQP
5 7 (0.49%) Firewall
5 7 (0.49%) Internet
5 7 (0.49%) VPN
6 6 (0.42%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (0.42%) MQTT
7 5 (0.35%) DHCP
7 5 (0.35%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.28%) HTTPS
8 4 (0.28%) LTE
8 4 (0.28%) SNMP
8 4 (0.28%) WAN
9 3 (0.21%) Modbus
10 2 (0.14%) Hyperconnected
10 2 (0.14%) RFID
10 2 (0.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (13.22%) NoSQL
2 180 (12.53%) PostgreSQL
3 153 (10.65%) MongoDB
4 100 (6.96%) SQL Server
5 77 (5.36%) MySQL
6 68 (4.73%) Relational Database
7 63 (4.38%) DynamoDB
8 52 (3.62%) Elasticsearch
9 39 (2.71%) Amazon RDS
10 36 (2.51%) Redis
11 35 (2.44%) BigQuery
12 28 (1.95%) Big Data
13 24 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
14 23 (1.60%) RDBMS
15 16 (1.11%) Pinecone
15 16 (1.11%) Power BI
16 11 (0.77%) Data Lake
16 11 (0.77%) DB2
17 9 (0.63%) Tableau
18 7 (0.49%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 191 (13.29%) Git
2 131 (9.12%) Jenkins
3 127 (8.84%) GitLab
4 50 (3.48%) JIRA
5 49 (3.41%) TeamCity
6 40 (2.78%) Cucumber
7 35 (2.44%) JUnit
8 33 (2.30%) CircleCI
9 32 (2.23%) Cypress.io
10 26 (1.81%) Selenium
11 19 (1.32%) Bitbucket
11 19 (1.32%) Claude Code
11 19 (1.32%) Mockito
12 17 (1.18%) Maven
12 17 (1.18%) Vite
13 16 (1.11%) SonarQube
14 9 (0.63%) JMeter
15 8 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
15 8 (0.56%) Postman
15 8 (0.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 411 (28.60%) Finance
2 327 (22.76%) Social Skills
3 154 (10.72%) Banking
4 110 (7.65%) Public Sector
5 95 (6.61%) Law
6 92 (6.40%) Analytical Skills
7 67 (4.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 67 (4.66%) Retail
8 48 (3.34%) Telecoms
9 47 (3.27%) Financial Institution
10 37 (2.57%) Back Office
11 22 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
12 20 (1.39%) Advertising
13 19 (1.32%) Billing
13 19 (1.32%) Legal
14 17 (1.18%) Marketing
15 13 (0.90%) Front Office
15 13 (0.90%) Games
16 11 (0.77%) Aerospace
16 11 (0.77%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 488 (33.96%) Developer
2 389 (27.07%) Senior
3 277 (19.28%) Software Engineer
4 210 (14.61%) Architect
5 186 (12.94%) Lead
6 121 (8.42%) Senior Developer
7 120 (8.35%) Full-Stack Developer
8 115 (8.00%) Java Developer
9 98 (6.82%) Java Engineer
10 96 (6.68%) Senior Software Engineer
11 88 (6.12%) Solutions Architect
12 74 (5.15%) .NET Developer
13 60 (4.18%) Software Developer
14 58 (4.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 53 (3.69%) DevOps Engineer
15 53 (3.69%) Lead Developer
16 44 (3.06%) Principal Engineer
17 43 (2.99%) Java Software Engineer
17 43 (2.99%) Senior Java Engineer
18 42 (2.92%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 312 (21.71%) React
2 289 (20.11%) .NET
3 281 (19.55%) RESTful
4 242 (16.84%) Node.js
5 225 (15.66%) Spring
6 220 (15.31%) REST
7 206 (14.34%) Spring Boot
8 179 (12.46%) Kafka
9 108 (7.52%) AngularJS
10 92 (6.40%) gRPC
11 85 (5.92%) .NET Core
12 80 (5.57%) HTML
13 71 (4.94%) CSS
14 69 (4.80%) RabbitMQ
14 69 (4.80%) Vue
15 63 (4.38%) ASP.NET
16 62 (4.31%) .NET Framework
17 56 (3.90%) OAuth
18 53 (3.69%) Django
19 52 (3.62%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 411 (28.60%) Cloud Native
2 252 (17.54%) Distributed Systems
3 108 (7.52%) Product Ownership
4 88 (6.12%) Enterprise Software
5 61 (4.24%) Legacy Systems
6 59 (4.11%) Greenfield Project
7 46 (3.20%) Video\Live Streaming
8 45 (3.13%) Over-the-Top Content
9 39 (2.71%) Algorithms
10 38 (2.64%) Data Structures
11 30 (2.09%) Distributed Architecture
12 26 (1.81%) Blockchain
13 24 (1.67%) AI Agents
13 24 (1.67%) Mobile App
13 24 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
14 21 (1.46%) Legacy Applications
15 20 (1.39%) Public Cloud
15 20 (1.39%) Virtual Team
16 17 (1.18%) Web3
17 16 (1.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 76 (5.29%) Linux
2 42 (2.92%) Windows
3 20 (1.39%) Unix
4 15 (1.04%) Android
5 7 (0.49%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.35%) CentOS
6 5 (0.35%) Debian
6 5 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (0.35%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.21%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.070%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 714 (49.69%) CI/CD
2 561 (39.04%) Agile
3 550 (38.27%) DevOps
4 533 (37.09%) Software Engineering
5 393 (27.35%) Containerisation
6 330 (22.96%) Full-Stack Development
7 309 (21.50%) Mentoring
8 294 (20.46%) Event-Driven
9 292 (20.32%) Problem-Solving
10 289 (20.11%) Test Automation
11 279 (19.42%) Continuous Improvement
12 268 (18.65%) AI
13 243 (16.91%) Infrastructure as Code
14 185 (12.87%) Computer Science
15 174 (12.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 174 (12.11%) Scrum
16 160 (11.13%) Coaching
16 160 (11.13%) Technical Leadership
17 157 (10.93%) Clean Code
18 150 (10.44%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 464 (32.29%) Java
2 406 (28.25%) Python
3 292 (20.32%) SQL
4 274 (19.07%) JavaScript
5 261 (18.16%) C#
6 227 (15.80%) TypeScript
7 136 (9.46%) Go
8 51 (3.55%) Scala
9 45 (3.13%) C++
9 45 (3.13%) PHP
10 38 (2.64%) Bash
11 32 (2.23%) C
12 31 (2.16%) Ruby
13 21 (1.46%) PL/SQL
14 19 (1.32%) Kotlin
15 18 (1.25%) PowerShell
15 18 (1.25%) Rust
16 17 (1.18%) Shell Script
17 10 (0.70%) Groovy
18 9 (0.63%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 192 (13.36%) Degree
2 142 (9.88%) Security Cleared
3 109 (7.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 91 (6.33%) SC Cleared
5 56 (3.90%) AWS Certification
6 33 (2.30%) Azure Certification
7 30 (2.09%) Master's Degree
8 29 (2.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 26 (1.81%) TOGAF Certification
10 24 (1.67%) CISSP
10 24 (1.67%) DV Cleared
11 21 (1.46%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (0.90%) AWS Certified Developer
12 13 (0.90%) DBS Check
13 12 (0.84%) CISM
14 8 (0.56%) PhD
15 7 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
16 6 (0.42%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
17 5 (0.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (6.89%) QA
2 31 (2.16%) Accessibility
3 30 (2.09%) GDPR
4 27 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 26 (1.81%) PCI DSS
6 22 (1.53%) NIST
7 16 (1.11%) SOC 2
8 11 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
9 10 (0.70%) NCSC
10 9 (0.63%) GRC
11 7 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.42%) IFRS
12 6 (0.42%) WCAG
13 5 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 4 (0.28%) SLA
15 3 (0.21%) Data Quality
15 3 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 3 (0.21%) ISO 9001
15 3 (0.21%) SEPA
16 1 (0.070%) EMIR
System Software
1 433 (30.13%) Docker
2 13 (0.90%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.28%) Firmware
4 1 (0.070%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.070%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 456 (31.73%) Kubernetes
2 269 (18.72%) Terraform
3 84 (5.85%) Ansible
3 84 (5.85%) Grafana
4 44 (3.06%) Prometheus
5 30 (2.09%) Argo
6 19 (1.32%) Kibana
6 19 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.70%) Puppet
8 9 (0.63%) HP Fortify
9 7 (0.49%) Cilium
10 4 (0.28%) Istio
10 4 (0.28%) Packer
10 4 (0.28%) Rancher
11 3 (0.21%) Nagios
12 2 (0.14%) MIIS
12 2 (0.14%) Opsgenie
13 1 (0.070%) Podman
Vendors
1 132 (9.19%) Microsoft
2 65 (4.52%) Google
3 51 (3.55%) Oracle
4 45 (3.13%) Typelevel
5 25 (1.74%) OpenAI
6 16 (1.11%) Dynatrace
7 15 (1.04%) Red Hat
8 14 (0.97%) IBM
9 13 (0.90%) AppDynamics
9 13 (0.90%) SAP
10 12 (0.84%) Salesforce
11 11 (0.77%) CrowdStrike
12 10 (0.70%) Cisco
12 10 (0.70%) Databricks
12 10 (0.70%) Splunk
13 9 (0.63%) Atlassian
14 7 (0.49%) Adobe
14 7 (0.49%) Guidewire
15 6 (0.42%) F5
15 6 (0.42%) HubSpot